The federal government collects royalties from businesses that hold leases to produce oil and gas on public lands. The petroleum industry has proposed several changes to the way the government manages the collection of those royalties. In addition, the government recently revised its rule for how some of the royalties are valued. Even if implemented fully, those various reforms would be unlikely to have much effect on the volume of oil and gas produced from federal leases both because the scope...
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This is the fifth in a series of audits on the Fund Balance With Treasury account (an asset account) performed in response to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Financial Management Act of 1994, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. This report discusses the development and use of performance measures to assess the effectiveness of disbursing stations' management of differences in deposits, interagency transfers, and checks issued. The FY...
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The admittance, isolation, and element radiation patterns of reduced- height rectangular slot antennas in a plasma-clad ground plane were measured and compared with theoretical predictions. The plasma sheath simulates the electromagnetic properties of a high-altitude boundary layer and is produced by pulsed electron beam emission from the ground plane in the presence of a low-pressure gas.
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The purpose of this study was to derive information required improving State level civil defense training and to apply this information to the development of required courses for achieving this purpose. In order to achieve this goal, research was first conducted to determine the training requirements for the governmental and auxiliary personnel that are needed to implement State civil defense operational plans. Second, training materials were developed to meet these requirements.
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